
biography
Ms. Patel specializes in representing corporations, small businesses, and individuals before federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate level in a broad range of business and commercial disputes. While being an assertive advocate before various tribunals, she offers practical and pragmatic advice to her clients to resolve disputes in a cost-efficient manner.
Ms. Patel has experience handling complex commercial litigations, employment litigations, breach of contract claims, trust and estates litigations, insurance claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, commercial real estate litigations, fraud claims, construction litigation, and financial services litigations. By way of example, she has been involved in the representation of:
- a real estate investor sued for breach of contract where investor was a bona fide purchaser without knowledge;
- an individual sued for recognition and enforcement in the United States of a foreign judgment obtained in violation of a contractual arbitration clause;
- an international company sued for various employment claims in the United States;
- owners and subcontractors in construction dis...
Princeton
Credentials
Admissions
New Jersey
New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Cir.
U.S. District Court, D.N.J.
U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.
Education
Rutgers School of Law | Newark; J.D., 2002
Rutgers University; B.A., with Honors, History & Political Science, 1999
Prior Law Firm Experience
Fox Rothschild LLP
McCarter & English LLP